"When half the world's children are growing up hungry and unhealthy, when schools have become targets and whole villages are being emptied by Aids, we've failed to deliver on the promise of childhood," Ms Bellamy said, launching the annual report in London on Thursday.

War casualties

Despite signing the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many governments are failing to fulfil its principles, the report claims.

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